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Article: TRIBES' STORY OF LOSS, SURVIVAL IS COMPELLING.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 17, 2000
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``We are a small group of people, bound together by blood, by culture, by history, who have maintained our traditional song, dance, art, language, clothing, religion and food, despite significant events and changes in our lives. We are a small group of people with a story to tell.''
The small group is the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, an alliance of Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes. They tell their story at the fine Tamastslikt Cultural Institute at the foot of the Blue Mountains off Interstate 84 a few miles east of Pendleton, Ore.
We visited Tamastslikt (tuh-MUST-slickt) this summer on a driving trip from Boise, Idaho, ...